It seems my crabs are doing well (save Buzz the first, story below). The smaller purple pincher, Rex, looks like he might be molting soon. Seriously, this crab is protein crazy and has started to dig a little. He's missing a segment from one of his waking legs. I put egg with shell, peanut butter and plum in the food dish today.
Buzz the first started to smell, so we returned him. Clearly not molting, dead. (Darn.) The manager, careful to not refund me asked my son whether he wanted to pick out a new crab. Off the two of them go to take a look at the crabs. The new little Buzz was on top of a rock and walked onto my hand, while I was looking at one of his tank mates. I thought one Ecuadorian was enough for my tank at home. Since Buzz 2 clearly wanted to go home with us, we took him.
The pet store tank was horrible this last time. The humidity was way too low and there was a terrible death smell in the tank. There were limbs strewn about, and most of the crabs I looked at either were missing limbs or wouldn't come out of their shell at all. I was going to leave because of how bad the tank was when this guy invited himself home with us. My son wanted another Ecuadorian, so my son was really happy, and so is his new friend. (We picked this guy up on a Monday, so we've had him 6 days I think.)
My 2 Ecuadorians are subterranean, in the old tank. I can hear them both digging around and chirping. My 2 Purple Pinchers are in the new tank. I'm waiting for the other two Ecuadorians to come out rather than try to dig them up. They will be surprised when they surface because I left just the water dishes and a piece of food in a shell for them.
I calibrated my hydrometer today. It can't actually be adjusted but apparently reads 9% too high.
I leave you with a picture of my newest Ecuadorian, Buzz (2). He's a pretty light blue and the smallest crab in the tank.
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